35; U.K.
Director: Platform Films
Synopsis: From the inside of the Rail, Maritime and Transportation workers in the UK.
Category Archives: Documentary
Race To The Bottom (2009)
20m; U.S.
Director: Michael Hamm, Jonathan King
Synopsis: This story is about the 2,000 independent truck drivers working at the Port of Oakland, The film gives us a look into the lives of the drivers and their struggles to earn a living wage, support their families, and stay healthy as they do their jobs, transporting goods in and out of the port. It also shows their efforts to build a community coalition to protect their jobs and their health and make their voices heard.
Rail Against Privatization (2005)
60 min; U.K.
Director: Platform Films
Synopsis: British Rail workers fight to end privatization of rail system.
Contact: Link to rail union website: http://www.rmt.org.uk/
Rail Warning (2005)
43m; Japan
Director: Akira Matsubara & Video Press
Synopsis: Examines the cause of the disastrous Amagasaki rail accident in Osaka, Japan. This train wreck killed over a 100 people and the causes were directly related to the privatization and massive speed-up of railway workers.
Raimunda: A Quebradeira (2007)
Director: Marcelo Silva
Synopsis: Raimunda: A Quebradeira is a Brazilian documentary about the women who struggle for survival collecting babaçu nuts in the Amazon. It is an inspiring story of resistance and triumph in the Brazilian forest, where War on Want partner organisztion MIQCB supports the 300,000 women who make their living from the nuts. The film provides a rare and intimate look at this remote community of women, whose ecologically sound way of life is under threat, both from the Brazilian government and big business moving in.
Contact: Brought to our attention in 2010 by: Nicola Seyd for London Socialist Film Co-op nseyd@hotmail.com
Ralph Fasanella: Painter Of Working Class People (2007)
4m
Director: John Lett
GoIAM.org – Whether it’s a strike or factory floor, former union organizer Ralph Fasanella devoted his life to painting working men and women. The man who is considered America’s best self taught artist, would eventually complete hundreds of pieces of work dedicated to jobs and justice.
Available online
Ralph Fasanella: Song of the City (1979)
30m; U.S.
Director: Jack Ofield
Synopsis: Biography of a working class electrical plant worker/painter/CIO organizer.
The Real Price Of Military Occupation
20m; U.S.
Director: U.S. Labor Against the War
Synopsis: The vast majority of union members are now solidly against the war, yet most do not know the full impact the wars and occupations, and more broadly the military budget, are having on our troops, social services, national security, the federal budget and national debt, as well as on Iraqis and Iraq.
Contact: US Labor Against The War (USLAW) info@uslaboragainstwar.org http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org
Rebuilding San Francisco (2006)
28m; U.S.
Director: Maria Brooks
Synopsis: Workers who rebuilt San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Red Dust (2010)
20m; U.S.
Director: Karin T. Mak
Synopsis: The incredible story of resistance, courage and hope by women workers in China battling cadmium poisoning and demanding justice from the local government and their employer, a multi-national battery manufacturer.
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